NRDC Target Airlines Over 'dirty' Oilsands Fuel

"We don't want to be part of that problem. We're asking the airlines to take a position that they are not part of creating the destruction of what we believe to be an incredibly important Canadian national resource.'' Barrat-Brown said air travel is the fastest-growing transport sector. The letter is the latest effort by the group, considered one of the largest and most influential American environmental lobby groups, to attack oilsands development by trying to persuade customers that the costs are too high. Barrat-Brown said about 15 per cent of the refined product from the oilsands ends up as jet fuel and most of that is used by commercial aircraft. Major U.S. airports in Chicago and Denver have direct links to refineries making fuel from oilsands oil. United Airlines and American Airlines have both said they support expanding the pipeline bringing such oil to the Chicago region. The council's letter to Air Canada CEO Montie Brewer challenges him to "publicly oppose the expansion of dirty fuels in North America and use of these fuels by aircraft, fleets and other vehicles.'' http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080109/oilsands_fuel_080109/20080109?hub=SciTech

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